Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese (pagina 19)

Oscar Wilde era poeta, aforista e scrittore irlandese. Frasi in inglese.
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“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale

Lord Goring, Act III.
Variante: The only possible society is oneself.
Origine: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”

Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

Oscar Wilde Una donna senza importanza

Lord Illingworth http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q="The+only+difference+between+the+saint+and+the+sinner+is+that+every+saint+has+a+past+and+every+sinner+has+a+future"&pg=PA119#v=onepage, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”

Oscar Wilde Il ventaglio di Lady Windermere

Origine: Lady Windermere's Fan

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”

Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray

Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”

Oscar Wilde libro Il fantasma di Canterville

Origine: The Canterville Ghost

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

"The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (October 14, 1886)
Variante: One can survive everything nowadays except death.

“Most people are boring and stupid.”

Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray

Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray

Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray

Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray